Local Government Institutionalization in Hungary

ISBN-13: 9783631657348 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 214 str.

Gabor Soos

Opis

Why are local political organizations enduring in certain municipalities and ephemeral in others? This book explores the systematic factors that influence the level of Local Party Institutionalization (LPI). The analysis of LPI in Hungary, a new democracy, shows that LPI there mainly depends on the electoral system, the functional size, stability and average age of the population. The local chapters of national parties, especially those of parliamentary parties, appear to be more durable than the civic organizations acting as local parties.

Spis treści

Contents: The Concept of Local Party Institutionalization - Explaining Local Party Institutionalization - Methods and Indicators - Local Party Government Index - Local Party Loyalty Index - Causal Models - Further Evidence.

O autorze

Gábor Soós is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Political Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. He published several papers and edited four books on local politics and political parties in Hungary.